TUKWILA, Wash. - After a suspected car prowler was arrested, he made multiple threats to blow up the Tukwila Police station. His comments were specific enough that he now faces bomb threat charges.
William Joseph Madden, 33, made several direct quotes threatening Tukwila police officers and the station the night he was arrested, according to charging documents:
"I'm gonna blow the Tukwila Police station up."
"Tukwila's a small place. It wouldn't take much to wipe this [expletive] off the map."
"I'll burn the [expletive] [expletive] police station down. I'll go up there and bust into them vehicles. The big vans up at the police station. Boom. Ba-Boom."
"I will [expletive] shoot you. If I had a gun right now I would blow your [expletive] brains out. I would. I wouldn't hesitate. I would shoot every one of you [expletive]."
Prosecutors asking a judge to set Madden's bond at $100,000 said Madden also made references to the Seattle Police Department bombings last October, in which several cruisers and a van in a maintenance yard were torched.
Tukwila Police keeps their cruisers and their mobile command unit right outside the station.
Madden was arrested around 12:40 a.m. Monday on the 14700 block of 58th Avenue South in Tukwila. Police were responding to a 911 call about a man sneaking around, carrying a red backpack, and trying door handles on cars in the area.
After officers got there, they found Madden carrying a backpack of what turned out to be stolen items from a nearby vehicle.
It wasn't until after they put him in the back of the police cruiser that Madden made his alleged threats, detectives wrote in the police report. The threats also included several comments about shooting officers without hesitation.
Madden is charged with Threats to Bomb or Injure Property, a felony.
Madden has a several felony convictions dating back 3 years: Burglary, Motor Vehicle Theft, and DUI (2009); Attempted Burglary and Malicious Mischief (2008); Attempting to Elude, DUI, and Possessing Stolen Property (2007).
When asked how seriously they were taking the threats, a Tukwila Police spokesman said he had been briefed only on what's in the court documents, and would not comment any further than that.
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